Sprinting legend Usain Bolt has told CNN Sports he hopes teenage phenom Gout Gout “finds the right people” to have around him as the 18-year-old continues his meteoric rise in the world of track and field.
The Australian has set the sport alight with a series of eye-catching performances that have seen parallels drawn between him and the widely regarded greatest sprinter of all time.
So much so that Bolt has previously said that the wonder kid Aussie “looks like young me.”
Gout generated global headlines earlier this month by claiming the 200m title at the senior Australian championships in Sydney in an astonishing 19.67 seconds.
Not only did he set a new under-20 world record, the Queenslander surpassed the time of 19.93 seconds set by the Jamaican in 2004.
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